{"id":969866,"date":"2020-05-22T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=969866"},"modified":"2020-05-22T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:52:18","slug":"jerry-sloan-jazz-great-and-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=969866","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Sloan, Jazz great and Hall of Fame coach, dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/jerry-sloan-jazz-great-and-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-78\/19110020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2020\/05\/22\/19110053\/media_c2bd0673e25e4f77bf2ba713b8baa322-DMID1-5mx3s2z2w-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Sloan_Basketball_31242\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Jerry Sloan, the Hall of Fame coach who was a fixture for decades in Utah and took the Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, died Friday. He was 78. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/jerry-sloan-jazz-great-and-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-78\/19110020\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/jerry-sloan-jazz-great-and-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-78\/19110020\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Jerry Sloan, Jazz great and Hall of Fame coach, dies at 78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Sloan, the Hall of Fame coach who was a fixture for decades in Utah and took the Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}